Sponsors

The Scottish Property Awards is an independent awards programme which highlights the best commercial and public building work in Scotland. A eight month publicity campaign culminates in an industry gathering annually in Marc for the commercial property sector including developers, funders, architects, councils, professional advisers and contractors.

The high profile awards programme and associated events generate new business opportunities, through brand awareness, sales leads, networking and entertaining.

Bruce Stevenson Insurance Brokers is delighted to sponsor the Rising Star of the Year Award at the Scottish Property Awards 2018.

As one of the largest independent Insurance Brokers in Scotland, we provide comprehensive insurance broking and risk management services for corporate/commercial and private clients.

We offer an extensive portfolio of products and services covering a wide range of specialist areas, which have been exclusively designed to meet the demands of today’s customers and the insurance industry as a whole. Our independent and Chartered status allows our service proposition to remain at the core of our business.

As Scotland’s largest independent broker for property insurance, we place cover on over £2billion sum insured each year and pride ourselves on providing a personal, professional and expert service. As specialists in the property sector we provide market leading insurance solutions for all types of property.

If you would like us to provide you with a no obligation review of your insurances to establish if we can offer an enhancement on your current arrangement, please contact our property department.

Bank of Scotland has a dedicated UK Real Estate funding team. We support a wide range of businesses, from SMEs to Listed clients, and draw upon our extensive resources and expertise from across the wider Lloyds Banking Group in order to deliver innovative funding models for our clients.

In 2017 our SME relationship team continued to increase its support for local businesses, supporting clients requiring up to £12.5m investment and £6m development debt. Meanwhile our Commercial Real Estate team has maintained a successful focus on supporting larger clients’ investments and development deals above those levels and/or clients with net real estate assets above £25m.

Supporting the Real Estate sector is a key part of Lloyds Banking Group’s commitment to Helping Scotland Prosper.

Anderson Strathern is delighted to sponsor the City Centre Regeneration Project of the Year Award at the Scottish Property Awards 2018, in recognition of the diversity and quality of contributions in this sector.

Anderson Strathern provides top quality legal services in key areas for business across the commercial and public sectors, and also for private clients. We have strong links in the property industry and advise on all aspects of commercial property work, helping clients to achieve their goals. Our industry insight and substantial experience means our highly regarded real estate practice is involved in a number of the country’s largest investment, development and regeneration schemes.

We wish all entrants participating in the Scottish Property Awards the best of luck!

BRE is an independent and impartial, research-based testing, certification and training organisation, offering expertise in every aspect of the built environment and associated industries. We help clients create better, safer and more sustainable products, buildings, communities and businesses – and we support the innovation needed to achieve this.

BRE is developing Innovation Parks in different locations around the world. This network of Parks will provide a unique platform for the dissemination and sharing of information and experiences in new and developing construction innovation.

One of these Parks – the BRE Innovation Park @ Ravenscraig, has been constructed at the site of the former steelworks in Ravenscraig, Lanarkshire and presents a range of demonstration buildings which provide innovative solutions for new dwellings and refurbishment.

Scotland’s most powerful business brand Business Insider and insider.co.uk

Business Insider magazine is the largest corporate magazine in Scotland, publishing six editions per year plus a variety of specialist publishing including Top 500, SME 300 and the Deal and Dealmakers yearbook.

Insider.co.uk is the online extension of the popular magazine, providing up to the minute relevant news to Scotland’s business community as well as sector reports and economic analysis. Insider also organise a number of high quality corporate events including the Scottish Accountancy Awards, Insider Deals & Dealmakers Awards and the Top 500 Business Breakfast.

New Waverley is a major £150 million regeneration of one of Edinburgh’s most significant gap sites in the heart of the Old Town, with the first phase completed in early 2016. The 7.5 acre site links Waverley Station in the north to the iconic Royal Mile to the south, re-integrating this historic yet neglected part of the Capital back into the heart of the city.

Reflecting the unique environment in which it sits, New Waverley represents a fascinating contrast between old and new. At the heart of the development is a £6.5 million public square, surrounded by a mix of restaurants, cafes, shops and hotels – as well as offices and new homes. Yet interlinked within its contemporary footprint are glimpses of its historic past which form a vital part of its future. This includes a row of historic Victorian arches transformed into a new arts, retail and leisure quarter and packed with independent traders, restaurants and bars.

Peace Recruitment Group is now considered one of the top recruitment agencies in Scotland for the built environment, and has grown from a ‘one-man-band’ to a team of 20+ expert consultants covering all aspects of Construction, Property and Engineering recruitment, including permanent and temporary positions. Peace believes in giving clients an outstanding service every time, and places a high emphasis on service over sales. In 2015 it became the first recruitment agency in the UK to join the Institute of Customer Service.

Its commitment to giving clients and candidates gold-standard customer service was further strengthened recently with the launch of its new bespoke website, which includes an industry leading ‘Trip Advisor’ style feedback system where consultants are ranked in real time on their performance. Peace’s success comes from not spreading its Consultants too thin, resulting in them being able to keep abreast of all matters in their specialist sector, allowing them to provide an expert service that is truly built around you..

Peace is delighted to again be supporting the Scottish Property Awards in 2018. Having been involved in 2016 and 2017, it’s with great pride that we continue our relationship with the Scottish Property industry. We would like to wish all participants good luck!

Founded in 1992, PMP is one of the leading and most respected property consultancies serving a wide range of clients throughout Scotland and the North of England.

PMP offers the full range of Building Surveying, Project Management, Cost Consultancy and associated specialist services.

With offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, PMP is ideally situated to provide a first class service to all its clients, principally Developers, Landlords, Tenants, Investors or Agents. In addition, our thorough market knowledge and commercial contacts enable us to provide professional advice with a commercial edge.

PMP focus on an experienced, expert approach to service delivery, always led by one of our 6 directors based in Glasgow and Edinburgh, whilst each of our team members is experienced in the whole spectrum of building and project consultancy, our directors each focuses on niche specialisms within the following service areas:

– Transactional
– Professional consultancy
– Compliance
– Projects

Priory Bridge Landscaping

Established in 2005, Priory Bridge Landscaping PBL has continually supported the construction/ house building/ property management/ local authorities/ public and private sectors throughout Scotland by providing a high quality ‘one stop shop’ Landscape Service.
Operating from our centrally located working orchard and nursery in the historic Clyde Valley, PBL offer a full range of fencing, landscape, estate maintenance and support to our valued client base.

Our professional, fully trained and qualified teams have a wealth of experience in the delivery of all commercial landscape services.

Royal Bank of Scotland’s real estate finance team covers all sectors of the market from our offices across the country with 35 dedicated specialists maintaining relationships with our existing clients and originating new transactions. We are a leading Bank in the sector with expertise across the market where we support residential development and investment clients as well as all forms of commercial development and investment.

This extends to the Retail, Industrial and Office markets as well as specialist asset classes such as Student Accommodation, Self Storage and Hotels. Our clients range from our buy to let customers to the largest institutional funds in the country with a large client base of small to mid corporate clients in all sectors. Our commitments to the real estate market in the UK exceed £20bn and we remain supportive of market, originating in excess of £5bn of loans last year.

RSM is a leading provider of audit, tax and consulting services to middle market leaders, globally. With around 3,500 partners and staff in the UK and access to more than 38,000 people in over 120 countries across the RSM network, we can meet our clients’ needs wherever in the world they operate.

Our specialist real estate and construction team works with a wide range of businesses across the sector, including investors, developers, real estate funds, family offices, construction firms, estate agents, surveyors and architects. We use our experience and industry insight to overcome the issues and challenges that you face and help you to capitalise on opportunities.

Ryden is a multi-award-winning independent property advisor spanning Scotland and England and recently opened new offices in London and Manchester. We advise across commercial, licensed and leisure and public sector property, as well as residential and development land. Our experts offer buying, selling and letting consultancy alongside town planning, rating, research, management and project & building consultancy services.

We routinely transact double the deals of our nearest competitor. Last year our deals totalled c. 5 million sq ft and we received 20 industry accolades, including Industrial Agency Team of the Year in the Scottish Property Awards.

We are extremely proud to be celebrating 15 years as EGi’s Most Active Agent in Scotland and to have scooped more titles than any other firm in the CoStar league tables.

www.ryden.co.uk / @RydenNews

We believe business is built on relationships. That’s why, when you bank with us, you’ll be supported by a dedicated Relationship Director that specialises in the Property sector. Our Relationship Directors are in turn fully supported by customer facing real estate focussed Credit Risk colleagues who are visible and active in our local Scottish markets.

At Santander Corporate & Commercial we want to be part of your team. We offer lending, risk management, deposits, cash management and cash solutions – whatever it takes to help you build your business. We won’t just sell you products but will listen, engage and then provide real shape and substance to the solution we offer.

With over 20 years’ experience, we are a bank you can count on.

To see how we can help you, contact Nick Peet on 07803 377 064 or nick.peet@santander.co.uk

Santander were proud winners of the Scottish Property Awards ‘Property Funding team of the Year’ award in 2014.

The Scottish Property Federation is a membership organisation representing the interests of businesses involved in the property industry in Scotland.

We are an integral part of the wider British Property Federation which includes over 400 member companies with over 150 companies either based in Scotland or with Scottish interests.

We aim to create the conditions in which the property industry can grow and thrive, for the benefit of our members, the Scottish economy and hence wider society as a whole.

The SPF includes a wide variety of expertise in the property industry – property developers, commercial and residential property owners, investors, fund managers, lenders and the professional firms that support the industry – SPF pools this expertise and uses it to inform and engage with members and governments at all levels in order to represent the views of the property industry to key policy decision-makers.

The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and Scotsman.com are delighted to be media partners of the third annual Scottish Property Awards.

Across our multiple platforms, we are committed to providing the very best coverage of Scottish Commercial and Public property, both in advertising and editorial.

Our editorial and advertising schedule will ensure that the entrants within the categories receive the very best of publicity and profile that they deserve, and we look forward to celebrating with all the winners in the 2018 programme.

Specialist lender Together provides funding on residential, commercial and semi-commercial properties, as well as land and developments, working with all kinds of customers, from SMEs and LLPs to sole traders and the self-employed. Whether it’s for a residential investment, a commercial acquisition or to release equity, Together can help customers to access the finance they need.

With 43 years’ experience, Together has firmly established itself as a leader in the specialist finance industry and last year, lent a total of just under £1.2 billion, with a current loan book of over £2.37 billion.

Together has received a host of accolades for its products and services including; best short-term/bridging lender, best buy-to-let mortgage provider and finance company of the year. Together is also listed in ‘The Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250’, the elite league table ranking Britain’s private mid-market growth companies.

Steven Clarke, regional development manager at Together, works with a broad network of introducers across Scotland, including financial advisers, solicitors, accountants and banks, to help customers gain vital access to funding.

Trident Building Consultancy Ltd provides building surveying, cost management and project management services across a wide range of sectors in commercial and residential property, and across all parts of the private sector, local and central government.

The practice was formed in September 1998 and currently employs more than 100 staff across 11 offices (Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London City, London West End and Manchester) in the UK and Ireland, enabling us to have a nationwide capability to deliver sound, reliable advice from a solid base of qualified and experienced surveyors.

We get to know our clients, their buildings, their requirements and expectations. Ultimately, this understanding is the key that helps us to provide the best service at the right time. It also helps us to develop long-term client relationships, which we value above all else.

WEIGHTMANS is a national law firm with offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Liverpool. Since opening our first Scottish office in 2013, we have organically grown a niche commercial team with a focus on the property industry. Our Built Environment group work collaboratively with property investors, developers, funders, public sector bodies and others on all kinds of property-led commercial business across a range of sectors including investment, development, retail, hotels & leisure, social housing, infrastructure and regeneration.

Our Financial Services group work with banks, borrowers, funds and local government bodies on a wide range of debt and equity finance including development finance, corporate acquisition finance and on the establishment, regulation and dissolution of investment funds, including venture capital funds. The firm also provides a comprehensive range of commercial services nationally for public sector clients, institutions, corporates and SME’s, and has a formidable reputation and heritage in insurance litigation, where we are a leading national player.

Wolffe is a boutique brand design agency that was founded by Andrew Wolffe in 1998. We help businesses grow by employing a combination of well informed brand thinking, intelligent creative solutions and a strong service ethic. Our clients are as varied as our design ideas; from producing print and online sales materials for Edinburgh’s finest Georgian Square to the brand identity and packaging for a new smokehouse on Loch Lomond-side; from campaigns for a world famous five star golf resort to menus for a rural gastro pub; and from advertising for Edinburgh’s oldest jewelers to setting the tone for a global social media phenomenon.

All our clients benefit from our unstinting desire to do better and create well-crafted work that supports their businesses get to where they are going.